Word: socialists
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...When Pinochet launched his 1973 coup, he did it with the active support and encouragement of the U.S. government, who saw the democratically elected socialist government of Salvador Allende as a dire threat to its Cold War regional interests. The Clinton administration has forced the keepers of the nation's secrets to shine some light on the relationship between Washington and Pinochet, and what has emerged through four tranches of document declassification is an unflattering picture of U.S. collusion with a regime that systematically undermined the constitution of Latin America's oldest democracy, and brutalized its citizenry. And what...
...Communist? Was Eugene Debs a member of the Communist Party?" says Ann Ginger. "These things are fluid. They're not a simple thing, like a card-carrying member of the KKK. People were in and around the Socialist party, the Communist party...
...military made a show of welcoming Pinochet home last March after he'd managed to persuade Britain to release him on the grounds of his fading physical and mental capacities. But the generals were castigated by the country's Socialist party government, and prosecution may have become inevitable once the Supreme Court in August stripped Pinochet of his immunity. After all, the country is now a stable democracy and getting on rather nicely without the general, and the military is unlikely to risk instability by going out of its way to protect Pinochet from prosecution. All the general may have...
...Liberals and the Conservatives are the closest correlates to the American Democratic and Republican parties respectively. The NDP, led by Alexa McDonough, is Canada's socialist party--Nader's Green Party looks centrist in comparison...
...great that the days of Milosevic's rule are finally over [World, Oct. 16]. But what do we really know about Kostunica's political aims? And there are problems: the Socialist Party still has a voice in the Yugoslav Parliament, and many of the political and business elite still believe in Milosevic. We should wait and see before we start cheering. MICHAEL PFEIFFER Berlin...